we don't have a deal at this point. we've gone over the fiscal cliff. so we may not be seeing a recession necessarily looming any time soon but we are probably going to see a lot of slow economic growth. let's say you have a problem with your boyfriend or your girlfriend. you don't know if you're going to make it valentine's day. you're not buying those tickets to paris because you might not make it there. what we looked at in this deal right now, we -- with the tax increase on the $450,000, that 1% of americans, that's raising about $600 billion in new tax revenues. originally they were looking for $1.4 trillion. so we're not even halfway there. then we've got all these spending cuts on the table. we don't know what's going to happen with that. we're kicking the can down the road for another two months. the debt ceiling is still out there. countries around the world are looking at the united states and saying you couldn't get a deal done and you had 15 months when you know you had to do it? so there's a lot of anger for americans. honestly they've seen